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Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity (vnexplorer.net)
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[-] wiccan2@feddit.uk 111 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How about instead of punishing "the poor" with new taxes we just made healthy food cheaper.

How about actually giving people the time to actually prepare a healthy meal.

No one wants to spend 30mins to an hour cooking a good meal when they only get 4 hours of time to themselves a day. Reduce everyone's working hours and make them actually want to live a healthy life rather than treating them like consumables to be used up by businesses and replaced with their offspring.

This is exactly the kind of thing is expect from someone so far removed from the day to day reality of normal people.

[-] Kevin11@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago

What if, instead of perpetuating the narrative of diet culture and "healthy food" vs. "junk food", we worked harder to provide food for those who actually need food. What if, and hear me out here, we educated people on making healthy decisions and more importantly, maintaining a healthy, positive relationship with food and their bodies?

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago

Isn't healthier eating more about convenience than education or anything else. If it's easier for people to eat healthy compared to eating unhealthy, they'll take that up.

Path of least resistance and all that

[-] Kevin11@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

That's a good point, I hadn't considered that! Have a lovely day.

[-] DoneItDuncan@feddit.uk 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can people please stop asking Tony Blair for his opinions?

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Let's ask Tony Blair what he thinks about your idea.

[-] raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 years ago

It's me or this is stupid and paternalist? What are "the poors" gonna eat then?

[-] czarrie@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

The rich at this rate

[-] Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Soylent green! Made from their unfortunate neighbours.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Sugar free cake

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago

How about instead of taxing junk food we just start eating the rich.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Better also reduce the cost of healthier food, ya knobhead.

[-] butterypowered@feddit.uk 14 points 2 years ago

I’ve thought that for years. Tax the high sugar/fat/alcohol stuff and use 100% of that tax to subsidise fresh fruit and veg.

[-] throw4w4y5@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

that will just become profit for supermarkets. even if you legislate maximum prices for certain foods, it will still become profit for supermarkets but the quality will be reduced.

[-] tal@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity

You're on an island surrounded by salt water, Tony. If people want salt, they're gonna get salt.

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 14 points 2 years ago

Who knew Tony Blair and Jamie Oliver had so much in common. Maybe Jamie Oliver is a secret war criminal.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

He uses Bosch an awful lot now I think about it. 🤔

[-] Neato@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

Just another way to rob workers of more time and money and treat them like the serfs the leech class sees them as.

[-] donutaud15@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

How about we take these fuckers champagne and shove it up where the sun don't shine?! Seriously how dare they think of more ways to starve people?! Surely if he gives a damn then he should tackle the fact people are struggling to eat and live rather than worry about some so called obesity crisis?!

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Tony Blair: Well if they have no bread, let them eat cake.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

If you want the slightly less sensational version here's the original reporting on what he said: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blair-calls-for-tax-on-junk-food-times-health-commission-2gd7hhh69

[-] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Sounds like someone needs a reminder to have his fucking cake cake and shit the fuck up up while eating it too or else it's going to be shoved up his ass.

Rich fuck.

[-] noodle@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

I think this would be more effective than a lot of us lefties would like to admit. "Healthy" food is already affordable, people just don't want to eat it when there are other options.

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